Working Across Modalities in the Arts Therapies: Creative Collaborations offers an in-depth insight into cross-modality and transdisciplinary practice in the arts therapies. Including contributions from drama, music, dance movement and art therapists, as well as professionals from related disciplines, it vividly demonstrates how the alchemy of these collaborations produces innovative interventions and new approaches to working with clients.

Compelling examples of collaborative practice cover a variety of client groups, ranging from Syrian refugee children and women with eating disorders, to homeless war veterans and sex offenders. Together, the authors make the case for the effectiveness of cross-modal and transdisciplinary approaches when working with otherwise hard-to-reach and complex populations.

This book is a guide to good practice and an invaluable resource for both experienced arts therapists and those new to the field. It will also be of benefit to healthcare and education professionals, arts practitioners, and anyone with an interest in the subject.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Tessa Watson

Introduction

Tasha Colbert & Cornelia Bent

Part I: Cross Modality Practice and Research in the Arts Therapies

1 Not Doing What it Says on the Tin: A family awareness group in a high security hospital

Alex Maguire & Martina Mindang

2 Moving Colour: Combining dance movement psychotherapy and art psychotherapy in a NHS community women’s group

4 Facing Rupture and Nurturing a Creative Space: A dramatherapy and art therapy group on an acute ward in a medium secure forensic hospital

Cathy Goodwin & Alison Ramm

5 Ambivalence, Boundaries, Edges and Expansion: Relatedness and collaboration in a dance movement psychotherapy and music therapy group for adults with learning disabilities

Céline Butté & Diana Whelan

6 Stretch Marks: An exploration of a joint dramatherapy and music therapy group

Gillian Downie & Robin Wiltshire

7 An Innovative Collaboration: Combining art and music therapy interventions for adults with learning disabilities

Megan Charles & Judith Sanoon

8 Holding Hope: Rehabilitation of Syrian refugee children through art, music and dance movement therapy

Seda S. Güney, Leyla Akca Atik and Danny S. Lundmark

Part II: Transdisciplinary Practice and Research in the Arts Therapies

9 Regaining Balance through Family Art Psychotherapy

Katie Wilson & Yvonne Rose

10 A Transdisciplinary Approach: Working with individuals in a sex offender treatment programme

Kate Rothwell & Dr. Laura Henagulph

11 The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A collaborative approach to long term segregation

Emma Allen

12 Left Overs: Exploring Body Image

Camilla Matthews

13 Almost Paradise: A creative arts collaboration helping US veterans recover from homelessness

Lisa Peacock

About the Editors

Tasha Colbert PG(dip), RDMP, UKCP is a registered dance movement psychotherapist who has practiced for over fifteen years with a variety of client groups in the NHS, education and private practice. She lectures on dance movement psychotherapy programmes in the UK and internationally, and facilitates various continued professional development (CPD) trainings. She is an experienced clinical supervisor and psychotherapist with a private practice in West London.

Cornelia Bent MA, HCPC, BAMT is a UK registered music therapist who has worked for over ten years with a wide range of client groups in a variety of settings, including the NHS, education and charity sector. Within her current clinical practice in adult mental health, she often collaborates with other arts psychotherapists, contributes clinically to music therapy research trials and presents at conferences internationally.